Frederick Douglass (1817/1818-1895) Paulo Freire (1921-1997) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Free Reading, Civil Reading, and The Right to Literacy It’s a truth self-evidently known, that you, the … [continue reading]
Author Archives: Robert Hanna
Dare to Read: Affect, Embodiment, and Agency in Reading.
“A Philosopher Reading a Book,” Dutch School (Artnet, 2023) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Dare to Read: Affect, Embodiment, and Agency in Reading You, the reader of this … [continue reading]
“This very sentence is illegible.” Phenomenological Paradoxes of The Logic of Legibility.
“Relativity,” by M.C. Escher (1953) (Valentino, 2020) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. “This very sentence is illegible.” Phenomenological Paradoxes of The Logic of Legibility This very sentence is … [continue reading]
The Philosophy of Reading as First Philosophy.
“Girl with a Book,” by Alexander Deineka (1934) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. The Philosophy of Reading as First Philosophy You, the reader of this very sentence, are consciously … [continue reading]
The Psychocentric Predicament, The Impossibility of Any and Every Hard Science of Consciousness, and Soft Sciences of the Mind.
“The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness” (Tononi et al., 2016) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of the post and clicking on the Download tab. The Psychocentric Predicament, The Impossibility of Any and Every Hard Science of Consciousness, … [continue reading]
More Creative Rage Against the Computing Machine: Creative Materials and Social Contexts.
(TM, 2023) (PMA, 2023) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. More Creative Rage Against the Computing Machine: Creative Materials and Social Contexts In “Creative Rage Against The Computing Machine: Necessary … [continue reading]
A Cosmopolitan Commons For Free Reading: In Defence of Public Libraries.
River Heights Library, Winnipeg MN Canada (Canadian Library Architecture, 2021) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. A Cosmopolitan Commons For Free Reading: In Defence of Public Libraries Almost every … [continue reading]
On Fundamental Philosophical Disagreements.
(Lewandowsky et al., 2012: p. 122) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. On Fundamental Philosophical Disagreements For the purposes of this essay, let’s call people who wholeheartedly pursue and … [continue reading]
On the Impossibility of Kantbots and Seeing What’s Staring Us Right in the Face.
You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. On the Impossibility of Kantbots and Seeing What’s Staring Us Right in the Face The history of Kant’s life is difficult to describe. … [continue reading]
Addicted to Chatbots: ChatGPT as Substance D.
(Favpng, 2017) You can also download and read or share a .pdf of the complete text of this essay by scrolling down to the bottom of this post and clicking on the Download tab. Addicted to Chatbots: ChatGPT as Substance D In Philip K. Dick’s brilliant 1977 dystopian science fiction novel, A Scanner Darkly, and … [continue reading]